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Yellow Time
Flute and acoustic guitar, Heather singing... is this an Odin Dragonfly song?

(It's also the first song where the mix has let me pick out the backing vocal clearly enough to identify who it is.)

Oh yes, this is a nice song. Mellow And it's reminding me of something that I can't put my finger on... not the song itself but the vocal style... it's like somebody.... somebody that I really ought to be able to name... arrgh, this is really going to bug me now

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Last thoughts...

Well, 20-odd-pounds is a lot of money for even two CDs. Was it worth it?

Yes, absolutely. More than worth it. The album is as good as I could have hoped. Probably better than I expected. Certainly more enjoyable (at first listen) than Storms Over Still Water. The best thing they've ever done? No, I don't think I'll ever be able to think that. But that's ok. By definition, they can't ALL be the best thing they've ever done.

The "packaging" is remarkably ordinary, but to be honest I don't mind. I was expecting more of a deluxe thing like the Storms package, but packaging isn't why I buy CDs and I would rather have this music in an ordinary plastic box than mutton dressed as lamb (as the saying goes).

The booklet is also very minimal. The images are nice but I'm surprised there isn't even as much as a band photo. Though... I already know what they look like ...and all you really need is a set of lyrics, which are all there...

Oh, Peter Knight

And it was a clarinet (Sometimes I amaze myself )

Any Bryan plays an awful lot of keyboards... it's going to need another complete play just to compare everybody!


Well, finding this when I got in the house this evening almost made up for not being at Blakey tonight. Well, I'll be there tomorrow (Hopefully before any of the band have chance to read any rude things I may have inadvertantly said in this review )

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grayebb wrote:

You think that a cheaply packaged set of 2 CDs in a jewel case is value for money when we got a full-on lavish package last time? Are you mad? I'm sorry David, but I expect some effort when I spend that sort of money. The other week, I spent £50 on the 9-CD and 1-DVD and massively weighty Robert Plant boxset, now THAT was worth the money.

This effort from Mostly Autumn is, quite frankly, a rip-off.

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You think that a cheaply packaged set of 2 CDs in a jewel case is value for money when we got a full-on lavish package last time? Are you mad? I'm sorry David, but I expect some effort when I spend that sort of money. The other week, I spent £50 on the 9-CD and 1-DVD and massively weighty Robert Plant boxset, now THAT was worth the money.

This effort from Mostly Autumn is, quite frankly, a rip-off.

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I think you'll find that Plant and his record company have a lot more money to invest in packaging and the like than MA do, especially as the Plant package is a compilation and therefore there's not a lot of studio time to factor into the budget. The whole point of paying up front for HFOS was help fund the recording costs, and while I can only speak for myself, I don't begrudge that.

ALTHOUGH IT WOULD HELP ME NOT BEGRUDGE IT WERE MY COPY TO HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN DELIVERED!

(With due apologies for shouting)

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You think that a cheaply packaged set of 2 CDs in a jewel case is value for money when we got a full-on lavish package last time? Are you mad? I'm sorry David, but I expect some effort when I spend that sort of money. The other week, I spent £50 on the 9-CD and 1-DVD and massively weighty Robert Plant boxset, now THAT was worth the money.

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You think that a cheaply packaged set of 2 CDs in a jewel case is value for money when we got a full-on lavish package last time? Are you mad? I'm sorry David, but I expect some effort when I spend that sort of money. The other week, I spent £50 on the 9-CD and 1-DVD and massively weighty Robert Plant boxset, now THAT was worth the money.

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I think I explained that I'm not paying for pretty pictures and glossy paper. I'm paying for music. The "effort" came in the band writing and playing the music.

You spent £50 on 9 CDs and a DVD. For £50 I can get all of Bach's Cantatas, which come on 30+ CDs and have some very art work on the covers. So if you measure value for money by quantity and quality glossy paper, sorry but you've been ripped off by Robert Plant.

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When I gave MA my £30 for what I thought was going to be a professionally presented album, like the "Storms..." album was, and I eventually got a very ordinarily packaged CD in a jewel case, and a CD of music which I thought was, quite frankly, dreadful, then I feel like I've been ripped off.

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